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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why education and libraries and a free press and things like that matter. Otherwise you have people who think they know what they're talking about when they really don't.

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London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥

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This is why journalism is so important. This forensic analysis makes it clear that what we are looking at here is an outrageous war crime. news.sky.com/story/two-ho...

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"Palantir, a US-based data analytics company, was awarded a contract by NHS England to develop and manage the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP)"

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This is an excellent episode of @quietriotpod.bsky.social, and the disagreements in the panel are enlightening. Dawning realisation can be so good to watch. I disagree with @bestforbritain.bsky.social's proposals on Euro-UK relations because they would not be good for Europe. A 🧵

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Cutting down on food safety won‘t help convince partners to accept US food imports…

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Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

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“The public expect Starmer to be more ambitious in recalibrating the UK’s relationship with the EU. If he is not prepared to do that now, when the atmospherics are what they are and the entire world order has been turned upside-down, maybe we have to accept he is just not going to do it.”

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Public pressure on the UK government is mounting. It's clear that Brits want the government to prioritise our relationship with the EU. 👉 Our own polling shows 43% of Brits think increasing trade with our main trading partners like the EU is the best way to respond to Trump's tariffs.

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Removing trade barriers with the EU should be the UK priority.

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600 further job cuts in a department already stripped to the bone for 14 years: regulators left unable to function, a government reveling in slashing red tape while labelling conservation groups "blockers" - it's a wonderful time to be a polluting industry inews.co.uk/news/inside-...

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UK median wage, £29,628. Net pay, £24,852; barely enough to survive. Top 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Bottom 50% less than 5%. Can't revive economy without boosting purchasing power of the bottom 50%. Workers need higher share of GDP. Progressive taxation.

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A reminder, if needs be, that Trump's tariff madness, Brexit, and Truss's mini-budget, all come from the same place.

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I’ve never wished so hard for the tides of history to come and wash away the filth and vandalism.

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Nigel Farage has told ITV News the first thing he would do as prime minister if he won a general election would be to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights That alone is good reason never to vote for Reform UK. THIS IS WHY youtu.be/MdiDDJrQUJA?...

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Scared people do not spend. This is a fact of economic life. Once somebody is worried about their economic future, they begin to save, and that means Trump is heading the US and the world into a recession. youtu.be/GXRhm36h7BU?...

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As Keir Starmer weighs up UK-US trade vs UK-EU integration, he faces three key facts (a 🧵): (i) only about 25% of UK losses from being outside the EU customs union & single market can be replaced by even the best imaginable US trade deal (& that won’t happen) /1.

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Do read Andrew's threead. It's not a comfortable read, but then you don't want a comfort blanket, you want realism. Today you should also read the thread by @matthewholehouse.bsky.social in the next post.

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The DC attorney nominee has appeared dozens of times on Russian state media www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Useful summary of the new geopolitical age, with the US more aligned with Russia than the rest of Europea www.politico.eu/article/dona...

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Make America Great Again by destroying everything that made it the envy of the world and fill it with corruption, pollution, extreme prejudice, infectious disease, financial crisis and fear. I’m sorry Mr President, I can’t get that all on a hat, but the first four words sound great.

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Obviously no real problem at all as the Govt has sorted it, right? (This is sarcasm, in case of doubt.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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“Take back control of our laws” so American fascists can decide them for us… I don’t think so. Just imagine if the EU demanded this of us. Intolerable for it to even be on the table. Intolerable to be at this table at all, frankly. Another Brexit humiliation. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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New from @sascampaigns.bsky.social Water pollution in England is at a TEN YEAR HIGH as despite bill hike water companies continue to head in the wrong direction- sacrificing our health to prop up their financial hooliganism. Serious illness from bad water is up too…a lot!

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Well, Harvard had humble beginnings - started by an English Clergyman who lived near to what is now Borough Market, South London. Better to keep its values and lose its money than keep its money and lose its values. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Perhaps it’s beginning to occur to some Trump voters that not only is Trump’s administration keeping people out of the US, it’s locking them in as well. Just like brexit.

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"After all these years in and around politics, I’d like to think I have a pretty strong stomach, but yesterday was sickening... This was not newsreel footage of two dictators meeting somewhere far away and long ago. This was yesterday. Here in the Oval Office." www.thebulwark.com/p/two-dictat...

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The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes per year — enough to end homelessness, hunger, and pay for universal childcare. 👆🏻 This is the crime wave we should be talking more about.

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Toby Carvery deserve a roasting for this.

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The Trump administration keeps Losing in court because they want to do illegal stuff

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Your Tax Day reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel hoax designed to enrich the wealthy and corporations while draining money for the middle class and the poor. Don't let billionaires fool you into thinking we shouldn't tax the rich.

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Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.

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“The old American order is dead. It ended on April 14, 2025, when a Latin American strongman sat in the Oval Office and discussed sending U.S. citizens to foreign concentration camps with the American president while they jointly defied the Supreme Court.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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In 1929 W.D. Ross published a paper in the journal Philosophy, called The Ethics of Punishment. He argued that everyone has a right not to be punished, unless they are convicted, when they forfeit their right. If we ignore the right not to be punished we've left basic decency behind.

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"What kind of...sadistic army is it that attacks sick & wounded people in the middle of the night?" "It is way beyond any moral standard. I don't understand why there is not more of an outcry & accusation of immortality" "a breakdown in the moral stance & moral backbone of western governments"

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"The Israeli army is lying all the time.. what kind of cowardly and sadistic army is it that attacks sick & wounded people in the middle of the night, & attacks nurses, doctors & volunteers who care for sick & wounded people" Dr Mads Gilbert on Israel bombing Al Ahli hospital.

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Feeling sick as I read more into this - the American government is snatching people off the streets and sending them to a foreign prison in El Salvador without trial, a prison from which they will 'never' be released back to their communities. apnews.com/article/el-s...

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Waiting lists may have fallen 330,000 since their peak but this is just a week’s worth of treatments & remain at 7.3million A little good news But in GP surgeries up & down England patients are consulting with progressive & more severe symptoms A lot more is needed @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social

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Rishi Sunak’s resignation peerages will do nothing to help collapsing trust in politics www.electoral-reform.org.uk/rishi-sunaks... Electoral Reform Society – ERS

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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

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"Trump is committed to peace in Ukraine – but entirely on Russia's terms." The president is spouting Kremlin propaganda, but is he finally learning that he can't control Putin?

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